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From: root@mjbtn.MFEE.TN.US (Mark J. Bailey)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Maps Subverted
Summary: Let's track the bastards down!
Message-ID: <405@mjbtn.MFEE.TN.US>
Date: 20 Jan 89 13:12:10 GMT
References: <11891@netsys.COM> <454@acheron.UUCP> <3274@cbnews.ATT.COM>
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Organization: JobSoft Design & Development, Murfreesboro, TN
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In article <3274@cbnews.ATT.COM>, mark@cbnews.ATT.COM (Mark Horton) writes:
> From article <11891@netsys.COM>, by len@netsys.COM (Len Rose):
> > I would like to find out who took the maps and turned them
> > into a bloody mailing list. I would also like to find out how
> > much money they got for it. 
> 
> Personally, I resent it too.  Probably because three copies of
> Altos Magazine, Sun Observer, and AIX Review appear in my home
> mailbox in Ohio.  Two of them are addressed to Lauren Weinstein,
> who lives in California.  Plus there's the copy that appears at
> work because I'm listed in ATT.COM as well as Stargate.COM.
> 
> When the maps were first put out, it was clearly stated that
> they were NOT to be used for generating mailing lists.  Now
> some nameless bozo organization has violated the policy.
> 
> 	Mark

I know it nigh near to impossible, but it would be nice to attempt to find out
who did it.  With so many companies (apparently) buying this list up out of
nowhere, somebody has got to be seeking these guys out and selling it to them.
Now, if some of us were to contact the points of origin for these mailouts, 
surely one of us could get it out of the sender where they got their list.
One could pose as a "interested party" wanting the list for similar reasons.
While there is no real recourse after locating the perpetrators, we could at
least hound them with phone calls and display our discontempt.

I wonder also what price they are charging for the list.  I would be even 
more so angered if they are collecting a large sum for it.  It is a free
country, but if that is the case, I might wonder why I didn't collect on it!
;-) [no - just kidding!].  I guess we have just grown so large and with 
so many different types of people, that it was time for somebody to rape
sacred ground.  Where is the UBI (USENET Bureau of Investigation) when you
need them ???

Mark.

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